Kee-chung Sohn Net Worth is
$20 Million

Mini Biography

Champion long range runner Kee-chung Sohn was created into poverty on August 29, 1912 in Sinuiju, North Pyongan, Japanese Korea. Sohn analyzed at Yangjeong SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in Seoul, South Korea and went to Meiji University or college in Tokyo, Japan (he graduated from stated university or college in 1940). Kee-chung’s athletic profession became popular after he received an 8-mile competition in Oct, 1933; he continued to perform in twelve marathons between your years 1933 and 1936 where he finished inside the first three locations of every marathon and received nine of these races completely. Although he was pressured to participate under his Japanese of Child Kitei as an associate of japan delegation, Sohn non-etheless still received the platinum medal in the men’s marathon in the 1936 Olympic video games in Berlin, Germany. Hailed like a nationwide hero in his indigenous Korea, Kee-chung in the wake of his triumph in the Olympics embarked on an effective as a trainer for various champ runners who consist of 1947 Boston Marathon champion Suh Yun-Bak, 1950 Boston Marathon champion Ham Kee-Young, and 1992 Olympic Silver Medalist Hwang Young-Cho. Furthermore, Sohn acquired the honor of having the Olympic torch in to the stadium for the starting ceremony from the 1988 Summertime Olympic video games in Seoul, South Korea. Kee-chung passed away from kidney failing at age group 90 on November 15, 2002. In the wake of his loss of life the Sohn Kee-chung Memorial Recreation area in Seoul was set up in his honor. Furthermore, Sohn was also posthumously produced a Grand Cordon (Blue Dragon) of the activity Merit.

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